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Verse Job 9:8. _AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES_] This is a very majestic
image. God not only walks upon the waters, but when the sea runs
mountains high, he steps from billow to billow in his almighty a...
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WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS - As an expanse, or a curtain;
see the notes at Isaiah 40:22.
AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA - Margin, “Heights.” So it
is in the Hebrew. It means the “hi...
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CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD
_ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_
2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11)
3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22)
4. Confession of we...
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JOB 9:1 is Job's answer to the position taken up by Bildad, viz. that
the Almighty cannot judge falsely (Job 8:3). In Job 2 accepts the
general principle that God judges according to merit. But of wha...
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The point lies in the gigantic power of God who "alone" and of Himself
stretched out the heavens; cf. the expression of the same idea of
power, Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 44:24. In Isaiah 40:22 it is said t...
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Description of God's omnipotent power as it displays itself in the
material world.
_they know not_ Suddenly and unexpectedly, Psalms 35:8; Jeremiah
50:24....
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AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA— Mr. Heath (following the
reading of the Hebrew found in a correct copy) agrees with Houbigant
in rendering this, _who treadeth on the heights of the clouds;_ wh...
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E. NOT GUILTYTHE CRIME OF INNOCENCEJOB'S CRY (Job 9:1, Job 10:22)
1. Man is no match before the all-powerful, all-wise God.
(Job 9:1-12)
TEXT 9:1-12
9 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 Of a truth I k...
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_WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS, AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF
THE SEA._
Spreadeth out. "He stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in" (Isaiah 40:2...
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9:8 waves (c-12) Or 'extent.'...
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Cp. Isaiah 40:22. The points of resemblance between the book of Job
and the latter part of Isaiah are striking and frequent....
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JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (JOB 9:10)
Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most
difficult in the book.
Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses
them as f...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 9
JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S F...
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Some people may think that they are strong or powerful. But God is
much more powerful than any person. The Bible says that God made
everything (Genesis chapter 1). He made our wonderful world. He plac...
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WAVES OF THE SEA. — Literally, _high place of the sea:_ the sea when
and where it runs _mountains high._ The various physical phenomena of
earthquake, eclipse, and hurricane are here described as the...
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נֹטֶ֣ה שָׁמַ֣יִם לְ בַדֹּ֑ו וְ֝
דֹורֵ֗ךְ עַל
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X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1
Job SPEAKS
IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to
appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes;
it...
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“THE DAYSMAN”
Job 9:1
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this
magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks
the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6;...
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Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general
proposition, Of a truth I know that it IS so; and then propounded the
great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss in...
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_Heavens, like a tent, Psalm ciii. 2. These nations lived under tents;
(Calmet) and beholding the magnificent one which God had spread over
the heads of alol, Job, in rapture, (Haydock) wonders that h...
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(5) Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth
them in his anger. (6) Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and
the pillars thereof tremble. (7) Which commandeth the sun, a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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WHICH ALONE SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS,.... The expanse, or what we
commonly translate "firmament"; but has its name in the Hebrew
language from its being expanded, spread, and stretched out, over the...
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of
the sea.
Ver. 8. _Which alone spreadeth out the heavens_] Without the help or
counsel of any other. As God was alone and by himse...
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_Which alone_ That is, by his own single power, without any other
help. _Spreadeth out the heavens_ He spread them out like a curtain,
Psalms 104:2, when he first created them, and he, in a manner, sp...
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JOB'S DEFENSE AGAINST SUSPICION.
Both Eliphaz and Bildad had attempted to fasten upon Job some specific
wrong, seeking from him a confession to that effect. He therefore
defends himself against this...
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Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, like an immense tent, Isaiah
40:22, AND TREADETH UPON THE WAVES OF THE SEA, He is their Master;
though they rise up in threatening heights, Psalms 107:26, at His...
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HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD?
(vv.1-13)
Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than
Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it
is so," that is, h...
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WAVES:
_ Heb._ heights...
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1-13 In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of
God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be
just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more tha...
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ALONE, i.e. by his own single power, without any other: help.
SPREADETH OUT THE HEAVENS: he spread them out like a curtain, PSALMS
104:1,2; and he in a manner spreads them again every day, i.e. keeps...
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Job 9:8 out H5186 (H8802) heavens H8064 treads H1869 (H8802) waves
H1116 sea H3220
Which -...
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CONTENTS: Job answers Bildad, denying he is a hypocrite.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad.
CONCLUSION: Man is an unequal match for his Maker, either in dispute
or combat. If God should deal with any of...
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Job 9:5. _Removeth the mountains,_ by earthquakes. The great mountain
ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where
liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their beds o...
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_Which removeth the mountains._
GOD IN NATURE
I. Its almightiness is overwhelmingly grand in its manifestations.
“Removeth the mountains,” etc. The whole passage impresses one
with the unbounded ene...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:1 Job responds, in a speech that is relentlessly
legal: ch. Job 9:1 is framed by the term CONTEND ...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:3 Job does not respond further to the specifics of
Bildad’s argument. Instead he describes the difficulty of anyone
arguing a case before God (vv. Job 9:3), given his power and stren...
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_JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_
Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice
(Job 9:1). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his
righteousness with God. The same, already...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 9:1
Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but
declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to
accept the favourable side of Bildad's alterna...
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So Job answers him and he said, I know it is true (Job 9:1-2):
What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that
we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just.
Th...
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Genesis 1:6; Genesis 1:7; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 44:24;...
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Who. &c. — A farther description of a black and tempestuous season,
wherein the heavens seem to be brought down nearer to the earth.
Treadeth — Represseth and ruleth them when they rage and are
tempes...